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Allegro con grazia (quasi valse) (1)
Arabesques (3), op.7 (4)
» no.2
Canzonas and Dances (2), op.43 (3)
Dithyramben (3), op.10 (2)
Elegies (2), op.59 (4)
» no.2
Etude in C minor (2)
Fairy Tale Sonata in C minor, op.25 no.1 (7)
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (2), op.8 (7)
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (2), op.14 (3)
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (2), op.20 (11)
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (2), op.48 (2)
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (3), op.42 (1)
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (4), op.26 (13)
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (4), op.34 (6)
Fairy Tales (Skazki) (6), op.51 (5)
Forgotten Melodies, Cycle I, op.38 (19)
Forgotten Melodies, Cycle II, op.39 (15)
Forgotten Melodies, Cycle III, op.40 (2)
From Three Dithyrambs, op.10 (1)
Gedichte (2) von Nietzsche, op.19a (1)
Gedichte (3) von Heine, op.12 (1)
Gedichte (3) von Nietzsche, op.19 (1)
Gedichte (6) von Goethe, op.18 (2)
Goethe-Lieder (9), op.6 (4)
Goethe-Lieder (12), op.15 (2)
Hymns of Toil (3), op.49 (2)
Improvisations (3), op.2 (1)
Lyrical Fragments (4): op.23 (3)
Marches, op.9 (1)
Nocturnes (3), op.16 (3)
Novellas (3), op.17 (2)
Piano Concerto no.1 in C minor, op.33 (6)
Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor, op.50 (7)
Piano Concerto no.3 in E minor, op.60 (6)
Piano Quintet in C major, op.posth. (3)
Piano Sonata in A minor, op.30 (3)
Piano Sonata in F minor, op.5 (6)
Piano Sonata in G minor, op.22 (8)
Piano Sonata in G minor, op.post. (2)
Piano Sonata no.7 in E minor, op.25 no.2 'Night Wind' (6)
Pieces (2), op.58 (3)
Pieces (3), op.31 (2)
Pieces (4), op.4 (2)
Poems (2), op.13 (1)
Poems (4), op.45 (3)
Poems (5), op.37 (3)
Poems (6), op.32 (2)
Poems (7), op.28 (1)
Poems (7), op.46 (3)
Poems (8), op.24 (1)
Pushkin Poems (6), op.36 (4)
Pushkin Poems (7), op.29 (3)
Romances (3), op.3 (1)
Romantic Sketches for the Young, op.54 (1)
» no.2
Second Improvisation, op.47 (4)
Sonata-Idyll, op.56 (7)
Sonata-Vocalise, op.41 no.1 (arr. for clarinet and piano) (1)
Sonata-Vocalise, op.41 no.1 (1)
Sonata Triad, op.11 (5)
Sonata ballada in F sharp major, op.27 (8)
Sonata minacciosa in F minor, op.53 no.2 (5)
Sonata romantica in B flat minor, op.53 no.1 (6)
Sonatina in G minor (1)
Songs (3) (unpublished) (1)
Songs (7) on poems by A Pushkin, op.52 (2)
Songs (8), op.61 (3)
Songs (12) after Goethe, op.15 (2)
Stimmungsbilder (8), op.1 (4)
» no.4
Suite-Vocalise, op.41 no.2 (1)
The Angel, op.1bis (1)
Theme and variations in C sharp minor, op.55 (2)
Violin Sonata no.1 in B minor, op.21 (5)
Violin Sonata no.2 in G major, op.44 (4)
Violin Sonata no.3 in E minor, op.57 'Epica' (6)
Wandrers Nachtlied, op.6 no.1 (1)
Wie kommt es? (How does it happen?) (1)

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879] – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist.

A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano. His works include fourteen piano sonatas, three violin sonatas, three piano concerti, a piano quintet, two works for two pianos, many shorter piano pieces, a few shorter works for violin and piano, and 108 songs including two substantial works for vocalise. His 38 Skazki (generally known as "Fairy Tales" in English but more correctly translated as "Tales") for piano solo contain some of his most original music and are as central to his output as the piano sonatas.

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